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Here’s my favorite quote (and cartoon) from an article which appeared in today’s Wall Street Journal entitled “A ‘Dilbert’ Guide to Funds”: “Mr. Adams says that from his perspective as a cartoonist, “there has to be something broken in order to get a joke out of it.” In a series of “Dilbert” comic strips that ran in 1997, Mr. Adams—who spent years in corporate America and got an M.B.A. along the way—definitely got some laughs out of actively managed mutual funds.”

“ON THURSDAY afternoon, between 2:30 and 3:00, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered one of the largest and most dramatic swings in its long history. In the space of just a few minutes, the Dow went from being down around 300 points to being down nearly 1,000 points.”

“In a move that will stoke a battle over the future of the Internet, the federal government plans to propose regulating broadband lines under decades-old rules designed for traditional phone networks.”

“In The Wall Street Journal, MIchael Boskin writes that the U.S.has the second-highest corporate income tax rate of any advanced economy, and that reforming it would boost the economy and future business investment.”

“Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid’s impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it’s possible to know which development efforts help and which hurt — by testing solutions with randomized trials.”